An example of anthropomorphism in public sicence discourse:
"All stars have the problem of supporting themselves against gravitational collapse, whether that is a star like our sun which is burning hydrogen into helium, and thus providing lots of thermal pressure to stop collapse, or whether it is a white dwarf star, but it does not have any hydrogen to burn, because it is an old dead star, fading away, so it has another method to stop itself collapsing and that is called degeneracy pressure. So, although a white dwarf is very dense, gravity is still trying to pull that white dwarf to be even denser and even denser."
Prof. Mark Sullivan
Prof. Mark Sullivan (University of Southampton) was talking on an episode ('The death of stars') of the BBC's In Our Time. (Read 'The complicated social lives of stars')
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